Description |
437 pages ; 21 cm. |
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Series |
New York Review Books classics |
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New York Review Books classics.
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Language |
Translation from Italian. |
Summary |
"Curzio Malaparte was a disaffected supporter of Mussolini with a taste for danger and high living. Sent by an Italian paper during World War II to cover the fighting on the Eastern Front, Malaparte secretly wrote this terrifying report from the abyss, which became an international bestseller when it was published after the war. Telling of the siege of Leningrad, of glittering dinner parties with Nazi leaders, and of trains disgorging bodies in war-devastated Romania, Malaparte paints a picture of humanity at its most depraved."--Jacket. |
Contents |
The History of a Manuscript 5 -- Part One: The Horses -- I: Du côté de Guermantes -- II: Horse Kingdom -- III: Ice Horses -- Part Two: The Mice -- IV: God Shave the King -- V: Forbidden Cities -- VI: The Rats of Jassy -- VII: Cricket in Poland -- Part Three: The Dogs -- VIII: The Winter Night -- IX: Red Dogs -- X: Summer Night -- Part Four: The Birds -- XI: The Glass Eye -- XII: A Basket of Oysters -- XIII: Of Their Sweet Deaths -- XIV: The Soroca Girls -- Part Five: The Reindeer -- XV: Naked Men -- XVI: Siegfried and the Salmon -- Part Six: The Flies -- XVII: Golf Handicaps -- XVIII: Blood. |
Subject |
Malaparte, Curzio, 1898-1957.
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Malaparte, Curzio, 1898-1957 (OCoLC)fst00014337
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Italian.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Europe, Eastern.
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War correspondents -- Italy -- Biography.
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Malaparte, Curzio, 1898-1957 -- Fiction.
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War correspondents -- Italy -- Biography -- Fiction.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Italian.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Europe, Eastern.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Eastern Europe.
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War correspondents. (OCoLC)fst01170456
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Eastern Europe. (OCoLC)fst01245079
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Italy. (OCoLC)fst01204565
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World War (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst01180924 |
Chronological Term |
1939 - 1945
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Genre/Form |
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Autobiographical fiction. (OCoLC)fst01986487
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Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Personal narratives -- Italian.
(OCoLC)fst01424123
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Autobiographical fiction.
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Added Author |
Hofstadter, Dan, writer of afterword.
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ISBN |
1590171470 paperback |
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9781590171479 paperback |
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